Is a catastrophe civil war proxy war coronavirus islam is tara from syria that alone the drowning of those seeking asylum only this week and now compounded by bitter political strife in tripolis u. N. Backed government joining me now via skype from rome is acting special representative and head of the United Nations support mission in libya 70 Turco Williams 70 were going to going underground before i ask anything about the political situation obviously people are going to want to know how coronavirus its obviously impacting hard on britain when the highest per capita or death rate how is it affecting libya which is obviously the subject of civil strife and a proxy war well the coronavirus situation in libya is quite so worrying you know we we believe that it is stired clean out of control in the country the number of confirmed cases is close to or at 25000 today which over Something Like a lab and 1000 cases are active and there are nearly 400 deaths that have been recorded houser hun
A nato war that devastated africas richest per capita nation what hope is there for a country facing political turmoil civil war and now a Global Pandemic we are the acting special representative and head of the u. N. Support mission in libya and we investigate the pain to the burden the new film that explores the naked brutality faced by children in war thats causing apparently mass walkouts and film festivals from venice to toronto with one of its lead star of the killing fields julian sands told us of all coming up in todays going underground but 1st after Mondays Special episode with columbia universitys professor Jeffrey Sachs of the uns Sustainable Development Network Solution going on the ground got a rebuttal from Geoffrey Wilson author of the book Jeffrey Sachs the strange case of dr shock and mr aid in the interview professor sachs denied a quote i referred to in which he allegedly described himself as a free market idealogue Jackie Wilson told us sex did say that and hes in
Recorded housing hungary figures how are they getting the figures given that its libya is itself divided into 2 or 3 countries im not sure defacto so we are so that the figures are produced you know by the authorities w. H. O. Works across the country it is youre right there are divided institutions but w. H. O. Is a lead said a nationwide response and liaises directly with the different institutions the ministries of health and their National Committee that is in charge of the covert response but youre right i mean we do believe that the pandemic in terms of the numbers is there is underestimated and this is because there are also things like there are persistent shortages and testing capabilities of course you know the Health Care System has been devastated over the last 9 years beset by you know cant for. You know infrastructure deterioration and that has meant that you know its sort of helps crippled the response the humanitarian agencies are working in these very sort of difficult
How did in 1903 when he was still an Economic Advisor to yeltsin and when russia was still in the depths of the crisis brought about in large part by a Shock Therapy reforms he used to speech to make the case for International Financial assistance for russia which he argued was necessary to ensure that his free market reforms were not reversed in the face of growing popular opposition or one point he told his audience for another speech delivered to the Heritage Foundation an influential near liberal think tank it is in this context he made this claim to being a free market ideologue. You can reject the wilsons full statement online and you can watch the interview we did with professor Jeffrey Sachs on our you tube channel well one country that arguably has been destroyed by western intervention is libya 9 years into britains David Cameron and u. K. Warplanes supported by a compliant media areally bombarded what was africas richest per capita country it is a catastrophe civil war proxy
Secretary of state and former cia boss michael im pale meets ive been doing a mock as president of alleged narco state colombia as he wraps up a latin american tour still feeling the shock waves of successive u. S. Interventions coming up on the show 9 years after the formation of a un backed Transitional Government in libya in the wake of a nato war that devastated africas richest per capita nation what hope is there for a country facing political turmoil civil war and now a Global Pandemic we all saw the acting special representative and head of the u. N. Support mission in libya and we investigate the painted divergent new film that explores the naked brutality faced by children in war thats causing apparently mass walkouts and film festivals from venice to toronto with one of its lead star of the killing fields julian sands told us of all coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st after Mondays Special episode with columbia universitys professor Jeffrey Sachs of the uns Sustai